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Licensed Utilization Review II - Virginia Beach, VA - PS24848

Work Location: This position will work from our Virginia Beach, VA office location.

The Licensed Utilization Review II position is responsible for working primarily with healthcare providers to help ensure appropriate and consistent administration of plan benefits through collecting clinical information required to preauthorize services, assess medical necessity, out of network services, and appropriateness of treatment setting and applying appropriate medical policies, clinical guidelines, plan benefits, and/or scripted algorithms within scope of licensure.

This level works with more complex elements and requires review of more complex benefit plans. May also serve as a resource to less experienced staff.

Examples of such functions may include: review of claim edits, pre-noted inpatient admissions or, episodic outpatient therapy such as physical therapy that is not associated with a continuum of care, radiology review, or other such review processes that require an understanding of terminology and disease processes and the application of clinical guidelines but do not require nursing judgment.

Primary duties may include, but are not limited to:

Conducts pre-certification, inpatient, retrospective, out of network and appropriateness of treatment setting reviews within scope of licensure by utilizing appropriate medical policies and clinical guidelines in compliance with department guidelines and consistent with the member's eligibility, benefits and contract.

Develops relationships with physicians, healthcare service providers, and internal and external customers to help improve health outcomes for members.

Applies clinical knowledge to work with facilities and providers for care-coordination.

Requires a current unrestricted LPN or RN license or certification in Virginia.

2 years of acute care clinical or utilization review experience.

1 year of managed care experience and knowledge of the medical management process; or any combination of education and experience which would provide an equivalent background.

Must be able to commit to 100% attendance for the first 90 days

Must be able to work any hours of operation from 7 AM-7PM

Must have experience with electronic documentation

Must have experience using Microsoft Outlook.

Anthem, Inc. is ranked as one of America's Most Admired Companies among health insurers by Fortune magazine and is a 2018 DiversityInc magazine Top 50 Company for Diversity. To learn more about our company and apply, please visit us at careers.antheminc.com. An Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran.